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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heart_n	blood_n	great_a	lung_n	2,098	5	11.1885	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52618	An account of several late voyages & discoveries to the south and north towards the Streights of Magellan, the South Seas, the vast tracts of land beyond Hollandia Nova &c. : also towards Nova Zembla, Greenland or Spitsberg, Groynland or Engrondland, &c. / by Sir John Narborough, Captain Jasmen Tasman, Captain John Wood, and Frederick Marten of Hamburgh ; to which are annexed a large introduction and supplement, giving an account of other navigations to those regions of the globe, the whole illustrated with charts and figures.	Narbrough, John, Sir, 1640-1688.; Tasman, Abel Janszoon, 1603?-1659.; Wood, John, Captain.; Martens, Friedrich, 1635-1699.; Robinson, Tancred, Sir, d. 1748.	1694 (1694)	Wing N154; ESTC R18669	230,732	472

was not concerned at but ran swifter than I could and flung himself off from the Ice into the Sea and went down to the bottom Tab. P see a. V. Of the Sea-horse called by some the Morse The Sea-horse is not unlike unto the Seale in the shape of the Body only is much bigger than the other He is as big as an Ox Their Legs are also like those of the Seale for they have five Claws as well on the fore as the hinder Feet but they have only short Nails Their Head is thicker and rounder and also much stronger Their Skin is an inch thick chiefly about the Neck covered with short Mouse-coloured Hair some reddish some grey some have but little Hair and are mangy and full of Scarrs that are bitten and look as if they were flea'd every where about their Joints their Skin is full of Lines as the inside of a Man's Hand They have two great and long Teeth in their upper Jaw-bone that hang down below their under Lips that are about a foot and two foot long sometimes they are longer The young ones have no great Teeth at all but they grow in time as they grow older All the Sea-horses have two firm long Teeth yet I have seen old ones that had but one it may be that sometimes they loose them when they fight or otherwise they may fall out of themselves for I observed that some of them had foul hollow rotten Teeth These two long Teeth are esteemed beyond Ivory because they are so very white and are dearer they are close and firm within and heavy but the Root thereof is hollow Of their Teeth are made Knife-hafts Boxes c. The Jutlanders make Buttons for their Clothes of the other Teeth Their Mouth is very broad before like a Bullocks whereon grow above and underneath several Bristles that are hollow within and of the bigness of a Straw Of these Bristles the Seamen make Rings which they wear on their Fingers for the Cramp Above the uppermost Beard they have two semicircular Nostrils whereout he blows the Water like the Whale yet with a less noise Their Eyes are at a good distance from the Nose they have Eyelids as other fourfooted Beasts have his Eyes are naturally as red as Blood when he doth not turn them and I could see no difference when they were moved for they always turn'd their Eyes when they did look upon me and then they look much uglier though they are never handsom Their Ears are somewhat higher than the Eyes but very near to them which are like those of the Seales Their Tongue is at least as big as a Neat's when it is but newly boiled it may be eaten but if it is laid by for two or three days it becomes rank like Train-oyl Their Neck is very thick wherefore he does not readily this fright of theirs we strike them with Half-pikes or long Poles upon their Noses and knock them down half dead but for all that they recover themselves and rise again Some of them stand upon their defence bite at and run after the Men and they run as fast as a Man and their lame way of going doth not hinder them at all for they shove themselves along just like an Eel Some run from the Ice to the Water and leave a yellow Dung behind them which they squirt out at their Hunters as the Hern does They stink naturally abominably Others stand in the Water with half their Belly and look about them to see what is done upon the Ice When they are going to dive under the Water they hold up their Noses and make a long Neck When they jump from the Ice under Water and also when they make a dance of Seales as they call it about the Ships they constantly dive with their Heads under water They have their young ones by them one whereof we took away with us to the Ship alive but it would not eat any thing but did mew just like a Cat and if we touch'd him he would snap at us so we killed him The biggest of them that I have seen were from five to eight foot long out of which we cut so much fat that we filled half a Barrel with it He that I have drawn here was eight foot long Their Fat is about three or four Fingers thick it covers the Flesh just under the Skin and we do flea it off as a Skin This Fat yields the best Train-oyl the Flesh is quite black They have abundance of Blood as if they were only filled up with it They have great Livers Lungs and Hearts which we eat after we have drawn out the rankness with Water we boil them but this Disn is very loathsom so that I could not eat it it tasted so of Train-oyl He hath abundance of Guts which are very small I found no Fat within them their parts of generation is a hard Bone like unto that of a Dog about a span long covered with Sinews some were hardly so long as your little finger and yet they were not young ones neither The Crystal of their Eye is not of the same colour always for some were like a Crystal others white others yellowish others reddish they are bigger than a Pea if one will keep them he must let them dry gently or one may wrap them in Linnen Rags and so lay them in a moist place for else they fly or crack to pieces I am informed that when they couple they are very fierce so that a Man dares not come near them upon the Ice then they bring their Long boats near the Ice and so kill them out of the Boats They do not quickly dye when the Blood is almost all run out after they have been mortally wounded and flea'd they still live and it looks ill to see them tumble themselves about in their own Blood We had an Example of that in him that was eight foot long for when he was flea●d and most of the Fat cut off notwithstanding all the blows he had had upon his Head and Nose he would still snap at us and bite about him and took hold of a short Pike with his Teeth after such a rate as if nothing ailed him Then we run a short Pike through his very Heart and Liver and there ran out as much Blood as if it had been a Bullock The Masters of the Ships will not suffer these nasty doings in their Ships for it fouls them mightily Not only this was so vivacious but all the turn his Head about and this is the reason why he turneth his Eyes generally Their Tails are short like those of the Seale From their Flesh we cut no Fat it is all mixed together like unto Hogs-flesh to which it is the likest Their Heart and Liver we did eat they taste well enough chiefly where we have no great variety of Dishes Their Yards are of a hard Bone about two foot long thick at the bottom and less before somewhat bent in